The “Hamlet” stage in Shakespeare Glen. This deepened intimacy isn’t only felt by the audience, but also by the actors. Actress Jennifer Ikeda, who plays Gertrude, says performing on a thrust stage ...

The staging, too, favors the front section of the audience even more than usual for the venue’s three-quarter, or thrust, stage in which the audience sits on three sides.

C incinnati Playhouse in the Park replaced its larger theater with Moe and Jack’s Place–The Rouse Theatre last year for multiple reasons, mostly to use state-of-the-art technology and staging. The new ...